i often get disagreed upon, disliked and even hated because most people never took the chance to listen to me... or even know me...... and though I am oftenly misjudged and taken advantaged of.... most of the times
IT WAS MY OPINION THAT MATTERED

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Timothy J. Libunao is a 32-year old registered Medical Technologist, a father to a 5-year old amiable and smart little boy and a husband to a registered Physical Therapist. He is an accomplished campus journalist, student leader, businessman, salesman and most of all, a loving father and husband, an obedient son, a caring brother, a very loyal and dear friend.

An Editor-in-Chief of his high school and college publications, a student council president for three years in college, a volunteer grade school teacher and a social mobilizer who was able to spearhead various community projects in Quezon City. He led several national organizations including the Quezon City Red Cross Youth Council, College Editors' Guild of the Philippines, Jesuit Volunteers of the Philippines and Philippine Society of Medical Technology Students. His glorious years came when he was elected as a student commissioner of the National Youth Commission under the Office of the President of the Philippines last 2002 and 2003. He worked and was designated as the Chief Medical Technologist of Murphy Diagnostic & Multi-Specialty Center and Hope Medical & Multi-Specialty Center in Quezon City before he entered medical school.

He is the eldest son of Mr. Freddie Mandario Libunao & Mrs. Ma. Sonia Jaleco Jesena of Hughes St., Maasin, Iloilo. He has two siblings: Bryan Paul graduated with a Masters Degree in Integrated Marketing and Communications in the University of Asia and the Pacific and Maria Mikaela who is a second year Medical Technology student of Centro Escolar University.

His wife, Ma. Theresa Acay of Marikina City is a registered Physical Therapist while his son Mikhail Thaddeus is a pre-school pupil of Jesus Christ Saves Global Outreach Christian Academy (JCA) in Quezon City.

He finished his grade school and high school in Ateneo de Iloilo (formerly Santa Maria Catholic School). He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Medical Technology in World Citi Colleges and was awarded as the Most Outstanding Intern of the Year of Philippine Heart Center & World Citi Medical Center. He is presently on his third year Post Graduate course as Doctor of Medicine in Far Eastern University - Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation where he served as the Treasurer of the Medicine Student Council last 2007 and 2009.He was a former faculty of the KATINKO Wellness Institute Foundation Inc. where he taught Anatomy & Physiology, Massage Economics, Microbiology, Parasitology and Public Hygiene to Massage Therapists. Presently, he is one of the board of directors of Healthville Inc., a wellness company he co-founded with his brother.

Greece and Rome were influential cities in the past but they are now dwarfed if not obliterated by the many new emerging and prosperous cities like New York and Dubai but their glory and grandeur were never placed in the backroom of our thoughts. That is mainly because of the many significant contributions Greece and Rome has brought to the modern world.

ILOILO was granted the LA MUY LEAL Y NOBLE CIUDAD DE ILOILO (The Loyal and Most Noble City of Iloilo) seal by the Spanish Queen Regent Maria Cristina in 1896. From that seal originated the QUEEN'S CITY IN THE SOUTH moniker which denotes that Iloilo is the Queen's favorite city in the Philippines. Iloilo then became the Philippines' most important city with many of the country's significant academic, legal, political, economic and international affairs channeling within Manila and Iloilo only. Hence the title evolved to become the QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTH because no other city in the Visayas and Mindanao region can or has ever match up with Iloilo's overall grandeur.

History is past and way beyond what is today but without looking back into history, great cities of today will not be what they are now had they not learned from what the past has offered.

Just like Greece and Rome, many cities in the Philippines have already overtaken Iloilo especially in terms of progress but Iloilo has remain steadfast with its history, heritage and culture. With Iloilo's many significant contributions to the Philippine and world history, no amount of progress can simply erase its wonderful past.

Therefore just like Greece and Rome, Iloilo deserves such preservation of every single glorious mark it has stamped in history. Hence the QUEEN CITY OF THE SOUTH title should always be with ILOILO.